Deflate Gate led to the suspension of Tom Brady for 4 games, the Patriots losing its 2016 first round pick and its 2017 forth round pick, and the Patriots being fined $1 million. "The punishment comes after last week's release of a report by attorney Ted Wells, who was hired by the league to investigate the incident. The investigation was initiated to determine what was behind the Patriots' use of underinflated footballs during January's AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. The Patriots beat the Colts en route to a Super Bowl XLIX victory." It was found that Brady was aware of the footballs being deflated. Brady would not turn over his text messages and emails to investigators to prove himself innocent. I believe this is why he was considered guilty. But, Brady's agent, Don Yee disagreed, "the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis." "In my opinion, this outcome was predetermined; there was no fairness in the Wells investigation whatsoever," Yee said in a statement. "There is no evidence that Tom directed footballs be set at pressures below the allowable limits." Which to some extent those statements are correct because there is no proof that Brady had any connection to the deflation of the footballs, just him not giving proof and information. Brady will most likely appeal this decision and probably get his suspension down to 2 games or get his suspension removed completely.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/11/us/nfl-deflategate-response/
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